French maritime authority (AVURNAV) · France

AVURNAV Fort De France

Recorded as: AVURNAV LOCAL FORT DE FRANCE

Urgent notices to mariners issued by the French maritime authority for Martinique and the French Antilles.

AVURNAV — avis urgents aux navigateurs, urgent notices to mariners — are the navigational warnings of the French maritime authorities, issued for metropolitan France's coasts and for overseas territories from the Caribbean to the Pacific. They cover firing exercises, obstructions, lights out of service and rescue cases.

What the archive holds

38 messages in this archive record AVURNAV LOCAL FORT DE FRANCE as their authority, issued from 2022-10-18 to 2024-03-31. None of them is in force in the latest lists we collected.

Other accounts for 13 of 38 recorded messages (34%), the largest warning type group in this selection.

All of those that can be attributed to a NAVAREA belong to NAVAREA IV.

Located messages lie in 1 sea area, most often Caribbean Sea.

They reached this archive through NAVAREA IV (38).

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Warning types

Where

NAVAREA IV 38

Most recently issued

  1. NAVAREA IV 375/24 · Debris · Caribbean Sea2024-03-30
    Debris adrift in 15-54.12N 061-39.48W at 301425Z
  2. NAVAREA IV 344/24 · Debris · Caribbean Sea2024-03-25
    Buoys, red and white, partially submerged and adrift in vicinity 17-54.82N 062-52.93W at 251300Z mar
  3. NAVAREA IV 307/24 · Exercises · Caribbean Sea2024-03-19
    Hazardous operations 211100Z to 211730Z mar in area bound by 16-12.18N 061-29.12W, 16-12.24N 061-30.84W,…
  4. NAVAREA IV 292/24 · Other2024-03-15
    Cancel NAVAREA IV 286/24 and this msg, aid restored
  5. NAVAREA IV 286/24 · Nav aids · Caribbean Sea2024-03-15
    Port de saint francois light 16-14.95N 061-16.43W unlit
  6. NAVAREA IV 1424/23 · Nav aids · Caribbean Sea2023-12-09
    Iles de petite terre light 16-10.20N 061-06.50W unlit
  7. NAVAREA IV 1379/23 · Other2023-11-29
    Cancel NAVAREA IV 1142/23 and this msg
  8. NAVAREA IV 1375/23 · Other2023-11-28
    Cancel NAVAREA IV 1362/23 and this msg, aid restored

Earliest in the archive

  1. NAVAREA IV 1098/22 · Derelicts · Caribbean Sea2022-10-17
    Derelict eight meter F/V, blue hull, adrift in 15-48.94N 061-40.46W at 171313Z oct

Other french maritime authority (avurnav)s in NAVAREA IV

Counts are messages recording this issuer as their authority, recounted 2026-09-24; see coverage for what is collected. Not for navigation.

AVURNAV Fort De France — navigational warnings it issued · seahazards